Children's celebrities are asking young people to be cancer aware during Macmillan's 'Cancertalk Week', 24 to 28 January 2005, and to help raise money for people living with cancer by taking part in The Big Hush, a sponsored silence, at the end of the week.

Children's favourites such as Robbie Coltrane, who plays Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, and Neil Buchanan, star of CITV's 'Art Attack', are lining up alongside top children's authors Jacqueline Wilson and Anne Fine to encourage school children and young people to participate in various 'Cancertalk Week' activities such as holding an assembly, designing a poster or writing a short play to help increase their understanding of cancer and help reduce the myths surrounding this disease.

The celebs are also encouraging the kids to take part in The Big Hush, a sponsored silence which aims to raise money to help people living with cancer. Children can join in this fun event at the end of Cancertalk Week, with a better understanding of why the money they raise is so important to people living with cancer.